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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 6 km WSW of La Plaine, Dominica


Earthquake location 15.3152S, -61.3065WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from La Plaine in Dominica. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:36:19 / 3:36 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000412m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000412m. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/06/19 / 2019-06-15 07:36:19 / June 15, 2019 @ 7:36 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.99 km (12 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -61.3065° West, 15.3152° North, depth 18.99 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint-Joseph, Le Gros-Morne, La Trinité. Close country/countries, Dominica (c. 73 000 pop), Martinique (c. 433 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Saint-Joseph (c. 17 000 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Roseau (c. 16 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Petite Rivière Salée (c. 15 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from La Trinité (c. 15 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km WSW of La Plaine, Dominica.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.3065° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.3152° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW of La Plaine, Dominica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-15 07:36:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-15 08:19:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 130 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000412m Id of event.
Event Code 6000412m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000412m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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